Opponents challenge Nicaraguan prez on election

MANAGUA, Nicaragua 
An opposition party in Nicaragua is asking election authorities to bar President Daniel Ortega from running for re-election.

The Liberal Constitutional Party says the Supreme Electoral Council should invalidate Ortega's candidacy in the Nov. 5 election.

Ortega officially declared his candidacy Friday, based on a 2009 ruling from a Nicaraguan Supreme Court commission made up of his supporters that overturned the constitution's ban on consecutive re-election.

The opposition party's request Monday seems to have little chance: The electoral council said last year that it would abide by the Supreme Court ruling.

The leftist Ortega was Nicaragua's president from 1979 to 1985 and returned to the presidency in 2006.